ACC and politics
It refers to the ruling party's lawmaker Mahiuddin Khan Alamgir's comment on ACC, the national anti - corruption watchdog, that the country no longer needed the Anti-Corruption Commission, which worked like an autocratic organisation for two years. He came down hard on Professor Muzaffer Ahmad of Transparency International Bangladesh for his remarks over the recent changes in ACC law. He also asked the ACC to offer an apology for its misdeeds during the caretaker government.
Right from the start, the government has appeared somewhat estranged from the reality surrounding the ACC issue. Moreover, it has seemingly treated the issue as a partisan tool, to be employed against political rivals and for their personal gains. Hence, while there has been seemingly endless partisan rhetoric and politicking about the issue, not much effort has been invested to assess the colossal challenges that the undertaking involves. As such, hardly at any stage, there has been even a semblance of planning and coordination. I have to quote Theodore Roosevelt. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
When some high-profile criminal cases draw to a close and the guilty are brought to book, the verdicts help the common man repose faith in the system. But in many cases, the guilty get away. Such verdicts embolden criminals who lose the fear of the law.
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